Junior Grange
Click HERE for a printable copy of the 2008 Junior Grange Camp Application
Welcome Spring!!!!!
Happy May Day to all Junior Grangers and to all Grange members across Pennsylvania. What does Spring make you think of...tulips, planting gardens, baseball, spring rains, school is almost over, Easter, and of course spring cleaning?
Spring is a great time to have a clean-up day. Pick up trash at a local park, around your Grange Hall, or near your public library, or sponsor a recycling drive at your hall. Maybe you are saying right now, "we don’t have enough juniors to do anything like this." Why not ask another community group in your area to help, and work together on a big clean-up project? You could be the motivator that gets your Subordinate Grange to help take on a larger area for beautification. Clean up around a local historic site or park, by not only picking up trash, but planting flowers.
Our PA Junior Grangers have many opportunities to get involved in community projects, and many of you are doing just that. Let's hear your stories. Did you sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt for your local community or maybe you had one for your local Day Care Center? These are great ways to be involved, active, and needed in your community. We see many examples today in the news of juniors and youth helping with fund raisers for all types of organizations. The Heart Association, local food pantries, soup kitchens, and the American Cancer Society, are some examples of organizations with events that you can become a part of. Has your Grange sponsored a Relay for Life team? What a great opportunity for your Juniors to have a weekend of fellowship, fun, and exercise, while raising money for a good cause.
As you can tell by now, I would like more Junior Grangers across Pennsylvania to do more community service activities. We always talk about all the community accomplishments of the Subordinate Granges, but Junior Grangers can be and are active in their communities.
At Junior Camp, our campers always participate in a service activity. Throughout the years, they have played bingo with local senior citizens, made baby no-sew blankets for a pregnancy center, knotted baby quilts for Aids babies, made patches for pillows and quilts for soldiers, and these are just a few examples. During Family Festival they have had Bike-a-thons raising funds for various organizations. These examples of course were held at state events, but let’s hear from you and your Junior Grange. What are you doing in your community? Share your pictures and stories so we can see what your Junior Grange has accomplished.
SEE YOU AT JUNIOR GRANGE CAMP, JUNE 29 TO JULY 5 AT CAMP SYLVAN HILLS, CENTRE COUNTY!
Dina Zug
Junior Grange Committee
Thank you so very much for answering the Junior Grange appeal letter:
Pine Run, Spring Church, Seipstown, Central, Bucks, New Vernon, California, Ginger Hill, Cochranton, Goshen, Shermanata, Kimmerlings, Jackson, Buffalo, Community, East Branch, Logan, Westfield, Dayton, Fairview, Fayette Pomona, Long Branch, Hookstown, Bedford, Susquehanna Pomona, Butler Pomona, Venango Pomona, Millers Run, Perry Pomona, Walker, Liberty, Lincoln, Hayfield, Watson, Monroe, Gouglersville, Elizabethtown, Briar Creek.
A special thank you to our most generous givers: Kimberton, Virginville, Marion, Rostraver Grangers.
P.S. Please see the Junior Grange Dues Report HERE. These are due into the Pratts by June 30, 2008.